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CHARLES F. BASSETT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO AMERICAN MECHANICAL CASHIER COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

MECHANICAL CASHIER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 720,552, dated February 17, 1903.

Application filed March 29,1901. Serial. No. 53,4=13. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. BASSETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mechanical Cashiers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in mechanical cashiers; and its object is to provide a machine of simple construction adapted to issue change corresponding to amounts deposited therein and amounts of purchases made and also, if desired, register and record the purchases.

The machine comprises a plurality of cashreceptacles,each of which is adapted to be operated directly by the operators hand in the act of depositing money therein to remove the money from accessible position, and controlling means controlled, on the one hand, by the movement of the cash-receptacles and, on the other hand, by the purchase-keyboard mechanism to determine and control the return movement of the cash-receptacles to deliver the proper change.

The machine also comprises a controlling mechanism connected or cooperating with the cash-receptacles or deposit devices and also with the purchase-keyboard devices and consisting of relatively shiftable plates or frames acting as stop devices for selecting means, so that the operation of said selecting means is controlled permut-atively and conjointly by the several plates, the said selecting means being adapted to control the delivery of money in making change.

My invention further comprises other specific features of improvement, as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a mechanical cashier embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an end view of the mechanism of same with the end of the case and some other parts removed, showing the parts in normal position. Fig. 3 is a plan View of the mechanism with the top of the case and some other parts removed, showing the cash-receptacles and the detent or escapement mechanism therefor. Fig. 4 is a plan view with the cash-receptacles and escapement devices removed to show the parts below. Fig. 4: is a detail section of one of the selecting devices on the line D D in Fig. 4. Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the deposit-segment and cooperating mechanism, the purchase-keyboard having been removed. Fig. 6 is an end View similar to Fig. 2, but on a larger scale and with parts of the frame and cash -receptacles omitted, the parts being shown in operated'position. Fig. G isadetaiI view of acam for operating the selector-shaft. Fig. 7 is an end view ofa bill-receptacle with the side plate removed. Fig. 8 is asection on the line A A in Fig. 7. Fig. 9is an end view of a coin-receptacle broken away in two different planes to show the two sets of compartments therein. Fig. 10 is a section on theline B B in Fig. 9. Figs. 11 and 12 are end views of the resetting means for the permutating devices in two different positions. Fig. 13 is a front view of same, and Fig. let is a detail perspective view of part of the resetting means. Fig. 15 shows in end elevation means for locking the main operating-shaft until the purchase-keyboard is operated. Fig. 16 is a longitudinal section of the permutating devices. Fig. 17is a side view of stops, projections, or tongues on the permutating devices. Figs. 18 and 19 are respectivelyplan and end views of alternating mechanism for the five-dollar and twenty-five-cent denominations, and Figs. 20 and 21 show details thereof. Fig. 22 is an end view of the recording mechanism; and Figs. 23 and 24 are respectively plan and front views of such mechanism, the paper and inking-ribbon being removed. Figs. 25, 26, and 27 show cletails of this mechanism. Fig. 28 is afront elevation of the registering mechanism, and Fig. 29 is a vertical axial section of a portion thereof. Figs. 30 and 31 are vertical sections on the line C C in Fig. 28 looking, respectively, toward the left and the right. Figs. 32 to 34. show details of the registering mechanism. Figs. 35 to 38 are diagrammatic plans of the permutating-plates.

The machine comprises the following principal mechanical elements: cash-receptacles for receiving and delivering the cash, escapement means governing the action of such receptacles in delivering cash, purchase-keyboard mechanism operated by the attendant in accordance with the purchases, permutating devices controlled by the cash-receptacles or deposit devices and by the purchase-keyboard conjointly, selecting means cooperating with permutating devices to control the escapement means, and main operating means for operating and resetting the various parts. The machine may also comprise registering and recording mechanisms.

The base 2 of the machine carries the frame or frames 1 for supporting the mechanism, and a casing 3 is provided, which substantially closes in the machine at all parts, ex-

- cept at the aperture 4, which extends in the form of a slot across the front of the machine to give access to the cash-receptacles and permit charging and discharging of same. Directly below this aperture 4: is the channel, trough, or shelf 5 to receive the money discharged from said receptacles.

The cash-receptacles 6 are mounted side by side on a shaft 7, fixed lengthwise in the frame 1, and are in the form of annular drums or wheels with pockets in their peripheries adapted to contain money. Said peripheries rotate close to the lid or top portion 8 of the casing, which is rounded to conform to the receptacles and which is hinged at 9, so as to be thrown open when desired for charging the machine, but is normally locked down, so as to prevent access to the money in any pocket which has passed beneath it, this lid, however,being preferablyaglass panel 10,through which the money in the pockets may be inspected. A fixed segmental guide or retaining plate 11 surrounds the back part of the cash-wheels from the rear of lid 8 down to a space :0, where the cash is to be discharged into the drawer or storage-receptacle.

The discharge of the money both at the front aperture 4 and at the inside dischargepoint 00 is altogether by gravity, the pockets in the cash-receptacles being formed so as to allow the money to drop out of a pocket when it has passed free of the retaining-plate 8 or 11. Each cash receptacle or wheel has a central hub or drum 12, with side plates 13, whereby the wheel is centered on the shaft and containing a spring 14, attached at one end to the shaft and hearing at its outer end with frictional contact against the inside of the drum. The cash-receptacles are differently formed, particularly as to their pockets, according to whether they are intended to contain bills or coin. Each bill-receptacle, as shown in Figs. 7 and S, has a single circumferential row of wide pockets 15, large enough to accommodate one or more bills in each pocket. I prefer to make the side Walls or partitions for these bill-receptacles in the form of stationary plates 16, fixed to the stationary shaft 7 and provided with collars or central hubs 17, through which the shaft 7 passes, these hubs serving also as lateral bearings for the hub or central drum of the cashreceptacle, so as to maintain the receptacle in proper position longitudinally on the shaft. These fixed plates 16 are a little larger than the cash-Wheels 6, so as to prevent the easing or the lid from touching the latter, and are cut away below, as at 20, so as to expose or open one or both sides of the pocket at that point to insure the free dropping of the bill. The coin-receptacles, one of which is shown in Figs. 9 and 10, have pockets 18, preferably arranged fiatwise and with a plurality of rows of pockets located side by side, the pockets of each row overlapping with or being arranged in a different angular position from those of the other row or rows. For example, if there are two rows of pockets they will be arranged in alternation. The side plates 16 for the coin-receptacles are fastened directly thereto. The walls between the coinpockets of a circumferential row are not radial, but inclined to the radial direction, as shown, so as to enable the coin to run freely from the pocket by its own weight through the front aperture.

The springs 14 within the cash-receptacles exert a constant tendency to turn the receptacles backward in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 2. This tendency is normally re sisted by an escapement or detent mechanism, which is controlled by the deposit and purchase devices to permit only such receptacles to turn backward as will conjointly deliver the proper change. The deposit devicesthat is to say, the devices which are manipulated by the operator in accordance with the amount of the deposit made in the machineare preferably the cash wheels themselves, which are exposed in such manner at aperture 4 as to permit the operator in the act of depositing the cash therein to engage the wheel with his fingers and turn it in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 6, the escapement mechanism enabling free movement in this direction, and the spring 14 in such movement will be wound tighter, or if it is already suficiently wound it will slip on the hub of the cash-whee].

The escapement device for each cash-wheel consists of a lever 22, having two pallets or teeth 23 24, alternately engaging with projections or teeth 21 on the cash-receptacles, these teeth 21 being formed by the angles, walls, or projections between the circumferential row of pockets. The escapement or detent levers 22 are pivoted on a shaft 25, fixed in the frame 1, and are pulled by springs 26 to position shown in Fig. 2, wherein the forward pallets 23 will engage and stop the cash receptacles against back movement. Near this end the escapement is provided with a lateral flange 27, slotted at 28 to receive the end or finger 29 of a link, called herein the deposit-link. whose other end has a tail or hook 31 engaging in a slot 32 in a spring-plate 33, depending from a strip 34,

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that is attached to frame 1. Each depositlink has at one end a shoulder 35, adapted to engage the lower or rear end of slot 28 in the flange on the escapement-lever, and at its other end it has a shoulder 36, adapted to engage the corresponding spring 33. Link 30 rests normally by gravity in a position with its shoulder hearing against or near flange 27, so that as the escapement-tooth 23 is depressed, due to rotation of the cash-receptacle projection 21 past or over it, the corresponding link 30 and the spring-tongue 33, engaged thereby, will be pushed forward. This operation sets certain dogging mechanism to determine the operation of the permut-ating mechanism according to the deposit device or cash-wheel operated. It also preferably unlocks the purchase-keyboard mech. anism.

The permutating mechanism, which cooperates both with the escapement mechanism and with the purchase-keyboard, comprises a series or plurality of relatively shiftable vibrating frames or plates, herein shown as segment-plates 38 39 40 41 42. (See Figs. 6 and 16.) Plate 38 is controlled, through the escapement devices, from the cash-receptacles and is herein called the deposit-segment. Segments 39, 40, 41, and 42 are controlled by the purchase-keyboard and will be herein termed the purchase-segments. All these segments are arranged in concentric relation, being carried on arms or sections 45 and 46, mounted loose on the shaft 44, the several frames formed by the respective segments and their carrying-arms being nested or superimposed as shown. (See Figs. 13 and 16. Springs 37 tend to turn the respective segments 38 39, &c., in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 6, their movements being controlled by certain stop devices hereinafter described. Instead of such springs being used the parts may be made to operate by gravity. The several segments. 38 39, 850., are perforated with holes whose location determines the action of the segments as permutating devices.

Selecting means comprising selector-levers 47, pivoted on a shaft 48, are adapted to engage by needles, projections, or fingers 49 on said levers with the permutating plates or segments 38 39, &c., each of said selector-levers carrying a slide or bar 50, sliding in bearings or guides 51 on said lever and having at its upper end a head or enlargement 52, (see Fig. 4,) which under certain circumstances, as hereinafter explained, is adapted to engage under the rear end of the corresponding escapement-lever 22 and lift the pallet 24 at the rear end thereof, which depresses the forward pallet 23, thereby allowing the corresponding cash-receptacle to turn back to deliver change. This upward movement of the selector-slide is effected by the main operating mechanism; but it is determined by the permutating-segments 38 39, &c., the holes in these segments allowing or opposing movement of the needles 49 and 1evers 47, which movement would cause the lower ends of slides 50 to swing forwardly into cooperative relation with bail or frame 57,forminga part of the main operating means. The selector-levers 47 are guided in combplates 53, secured in frame 1.

The main operating means comprises a main shaft 54, a handle 55 thereon, working between stops, disks 56 on said shaft, a bail or frame 57, mounted loose on the shaft 44, and links or pawl-rods 58,pivoted to the disks 56 and engaging with the bail or frame 57 by a pin-and-slot connection 59 60. The selectorlevers 47 are normally held in the position shown in Fig. 2, with the needles 49 just free of the outermost segment 38, by a wing 61 on the shaft 48 engaging with the tops of slots or notches 62 in the selector-levers, a spring 63 acting on the shaft 48 to hold it in this position. One of the disks 56 on the main operating-shaft 54 has 3. lug or cam 75, so that when the disk is turned in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 6 it engages a lug 64 on the selector-shaft 48 to turn said shaft so that its wing 61 will descend, allowing the selectorlevers to move under the influence of gravity and bringing their needles against the outer permntating-segment. Further movement of the needles will then be controlled by the position of the holes in the segments.

The purchase-keyboard comprises a frame 72 and a plurality of keys 65, arranged in rows or sets for units, tens, hundreds, &c., said keys being supported and guidedin segmental plates 66 67, so as to slide in directions radial to the axis or shaft 44 of the permutating devices,said segmental frame-plates being cylindrical segments whose axis or center is the axis of said shaft. Shoulders 68 on these keys are engaged by springs 69, whose other ends bear on the inner plate 67, so as to press the keys outwardly. These springs are also fastened to the plate 67 in such manner as to draw the inner ends of the keys rearwardly, so that when the keys are depressed shoulders 187 thereon willengage with the plate 67. At their inner ends said keys have lugs or lips 70, adapted to engage the inner side of frame-plate to limit the outward movement of the keys. Below or radially within each row of keys is a spring-plate 71, fastened at one end to the frame 72 and bent in the form of a segment extending below or adjacent to the inner ends of the keys. Each spring-plate 71 has at its free end a lip or tooth 73, and the respective permutating devices or segments 38 39, &c., have tongues 74, which, as shown in Fig. 17, project forwardly from the corresponding segments. The segments being of different radius, the tongues 74 are bent, as shown in- Fig. 17, to bring their free ends into the same plane, so that all these tongues will rest normally against the upturned lips or teeth 73 ofthe stop-springs 71. When any key65 is depressed, its inner end will strike the springplate 71 that corresponds to that row of keys and will move the lip 73 of said spring-plate out of engagement with the end of the tongue 74 of the corresponding permutating-segment 39 40, &c. It should. be noted that the deposit-segment, as well as the purchase-segments, is retained by a yielding keycontrolled detent of this nature, its tongue 74 being adapted to engage the lip 73 of the units stop-spring 71, so that operation of a unitskey releases both the deposit-segment and the units purchase-segment. When any one of the purchase-segments is released in this manner, it is turned by its spring 37 until the forward end of its tongue 74 strikes the inner portion or shank of the operated key, this operation taking place so that such engagement with the key and consequent stopping of the segment will be effected before the operated key can return to normal position. As said key then moves outwardly when released by the operator its lug 70 will engage under the end of the tongue 74 that has struck the key and will thus hold the key down or in. To insure that the key will stay in until it is caught by this locking device, I provide the key with a shoulder 187, which when the key is pressed in engages with the plate 67 to hold the key in. When the segment-tongue 74 strikes the key, it will push the latter from engagement with the plate 67, but will engage with the lug 70 to keep the key from returning to normal position. Thus in Fig. 6 and 65' represent, respectively, the outer or normal position of the key and the inner or depressed position, while 65 represents the position to which the key springs back and in which it is stopped by the engagement of lug with the tongue 74.

The deposit-segment is provided with special stopping means controlled by the deposit devices. A portion 78 of this segment forward of the rear portion containing the permutating-holes is elevated or of a larger radius than such rear portion and has a series of slots 79 formed therein corresponding to the number of deposit devices or cash-receptacles. Dogs 80, pivoted on a shaft 81, are arranged in line with these slots and are guided by lips 82 on the segment portion 78, so that when such dogs are allowed to fall they will enter said slots and lie in the path of movement of the rear end of the slot as the segment moves forward under the influence of its spring 37. An arm or lug 84 on each dog is straddled by the notched lower end of a corresponding one of the springplates 33, which by such engagement normally holds the dog in elevated position free in the frame and carries a wing 86, which traverses slots 87 in all the dogs, said slots being of sufficient width to enable the dog to have a limited angular movement relatively to the shaft. Said wing is normally at the bottom of the slots, being held in that position by a spring 88, so that the dogs can fall freely when released, as above described. A latch 90 on one of the disks 56 on the main operating-shaft 54 is adapted to pass freely overa lug 91 on shaft 81 in the first movement of shaft 54 in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 6; but in the return movement of shaft 54 said latch engages the lug 91 and raises the wing 86, so as to lift and reset the dogs, the springs 33 then snapping back into place. When latch 90 passes beyond lug 91, spring 88 returns wing 86 to normal position. The unlocking of the dog's through the escapement 22, deposit-link 30, and spring 33 takes place in the movement of the cash-receptacle by the operators finger in depositing cash, such movement causing the wall or projection 21 between two of the cash-pockets to ride over or past the forward tooth 23 of the escapement, thereby rocking said escapement and operating the dogging devices, as stated. To insure against a repetition of this operation taking place in the subsequent rocking of the escapement due to the action of the main operating device acting through the selector-bar, especially in the case of the tWenty-five-cent escapement, I arrange the link 30 with the releasable connection constituted by the slotted flange 27 with the link resting therein by gravity and with the shoulder 35 of said link adapted to engage the end of the slot, and I provide the main operating device with means for raising said link to disengage the shoulder from the flange, such means consisting of a wing 93 on main operating-shaft 54, having slots 94, in which the links 30 rest. This wing normally engages a portion 95 (see Fig. 19) of the links, so that when the shaft 54 turns in the direction of the arrow it will first raise the links to disengage them and will then ride into and under the curved portion 89 of the links, which curved portion at that time (see Fig. 6) will be concentric with the shaft, so that further movement of the shaft will not further displace the links. During such further movement of the shaft 54 the selector-bar is operated to rock the escapement 22 and allow the cash-wheel to be turned back byits spring. The disconnection of the escapement from the deposit-link has also other advantages. Thus it enables the selector-levers to rock the necessary escapements without opposition by the springs The wing 93 also acts as a guide for the linkplates 30 and as stop-arm for the operatingshaft.

Resetting of the permutating devices is effected from the main operating-shaft 54 through one of the disks 56, link 58, and. a bail or frame 98, extending past all the arms 45 46, carrying the segments 38 39, &c., and having a loose connection with said link. 

